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What does a prolific author and television presenter of popular histories, biographies, novels and children’s books but who has also...

My immediate reaction to that question is “certainly not” or at least “I hope not”. I had to search online for a definition of the word...

Kenya, Brazil, Afghanistan, even the United Arab Emirates, are just four countries to have suffered serious flooding over the last few...

Last November a colleague called to ask if I would take two visitors for a tour round my ecological restoration project in Kenya. Two...

Stoker’s desk overlooks what would be a typically English rural, sylvan view.  It would be, were it not for the electricity and telephone...